In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.
Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.
Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.
Chicago is the greatest of all baseball cities. I make no exception, although I have been treated well wherever I have been. It is the greatest city because the fans will stick to a loser season after season. I have had my share of defeats, so I should know.
My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.
As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.
My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.
There is something to be said about taking the risk. We all know that is where the greatest reward is.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot.
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.
When I heard The Beatles, that was my turning point. They were like my mentors. You know, the funny thing about that, when I heard 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' at first I said these guys are like a flash in the pan. But the second album, I had to take all that back. John Lennon - one of the greatest writers in the world.
The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.
Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.
The film you know as 'Super Troopers' is a film that almost didn't happen. The script was originally commissioned and developed by Miramax, but when it failed to get a green light, Harvey Weinstein was kind enough to give it back to us so we could make it elsewhere.
